House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that leaked footage of Mitt Romney shows the Republican nominee has a “demeaning attitude” toward the American public.

“This unfortunately demonstrates the demeaning attitude that [Romney] has toward a large segment of the American people,” said Pelosi, who misspoke and referred in the quote to President Barack Obama when she meant Romney, on NBC’s “Today.”

The RNC flung Pelosi’s words back at her.

“Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama seem to believe that an America based on free enterprise, hard work and personal dependency is demeaning when in reality what’s demeaning is the Democrats’ view that we need more government dependence,” committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski wrote in a statement.

Despite her status asone of the Democratic Party’s top fundraisers — she raised $6.8 million for House Democrats just in August — Pelosi said she has no issue with the surreptitious nature of the video, and expects what happens at fundraisers to eventually become public.

Pelosi said she would personally have no problem with opening her fundraisers to the press.

“That’s really mostly up to the host,” Pelosi said. “People sometimes don’t really want the cameras in their homes, or wherever it is, that’s really up to the host. As far as I’m concerned, every event is a public event, unless you’re going to confession or something.”

In the footage of the closed-door fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., Romney said “47 percent” of the American public was locked into voting for President Barack Obama’s reelection because they were dependent on government. Romney has stood by the sentiment behind his comments but not the wording.